Website (again)

[Julian Price]

This is the experience of a Linux newbie like me looking for a Linux 
community in Cambridge:

"Great! there's a Cambridge Linux User Group.  Oh dear.  The home page's 
Latest News is 3 years old and it says 'We're very much alive!'.  
Doesn't sound like it to me.  Wait! they have meetings.  Oh dear.  It 
says 'Attendees (0)'. Maybe I'll register anyway.  Strange!  I've filled 
this form in and submitted it 5 times and it just keeps coming back 
blank whatever I write.  Oh well, I guess this website is dead"

I see from the mailing list archives that there has been talk of 
overhauling the website.

In the meantime, I agree with people who have said it would be better to 
have a single static web page.  Maybe have a link to the old site for 
anyone who wants to read the old articles.

This works perfectly well for other local groups like Refresh who have a 
good turnout to their monthly meetings.  Nobody asks why a web design 
group has a one page website, as long as they can find the mailing list 
and the meetings.
http://www.refreshcambridge.org/

This has been going on for years...
http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2006-October/005702.html

...and someone has even posted the HTML page:
http://lists.infowares.com/archive/clug/2008-May/006749.html

In my experience, the current website is doing more harm than good, 
unless you want to scare off new members.

Thanks,
Julian
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